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Donald Trump called “The Apprentice” a “Beiljob”. Now Sebastian Stan has been nominated for the Oscar for his representation of the President.

When the Oscar nominations for 2025 were announced on Thursday, one of the most surprising awards went to Sebastian Stan as the best main actor-the first of his career.

The surprise was not to see Stan’s name in such a high company. Long a fan favorite for his roles as Gossip Girls Carter Baizen and Marvels Bucky Barnes, Stan, 42, has had a year of breakthrough on the big screen. So much that he won a golden Globe (as the best main actor in a musical or a comedy at the beginning of the month.

But Stan received his Golden Globe for the representation of an actor with neurofibromatosis, which undergo an experimental intervention to change his face Another man.

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His Oscar nomination, on the other hand, is considered by his role as Donald Trump The apprentice.

It is difficult to imagine a more tense performance – or a more tension -loaded moment when it is recognized. Since 1929 the academy has nominated seven other actors for the role of US President, but none of these presidents were still in office-he issued controversial implementation regulations, split public opinion and generally dominated American public life-when the nominations were announced . Instead, they were all historical characters: in the past, without real power to influence the present.

But Trump is probably the most powerful person in the world. And Stan’s path to the Oscars was anything but secured.

Written by journalist Gabriel Sherman and direction of the filmmaker Ali Abbasi. The apprentice tries to tell Trump’s “origin history” through the lens of his relationship with the notorious New York lawyer Roy Cohn (played by) Consequence Star Jeremy Strong).

Jeremy Strong (left) and Sebastian Stan in the Apprentice.

Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn and Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump The apprentice. (Briarcliff Entertainment/Courtesy Everett Collection)

“When I look back on some of these previous interviews (Trump) when he was still very young and tried to get tax relief for the construction of the Grand Hyatt, there was something … Pure and honest,” Stan told Yahoo Entertainment in October. “I saw great potential in this person at the time.”

According to Stan, it was the persistent Cohn who taught Trump to be “brutal”.

“In my opinion, the loss of empathy and humanity was really tragic,” said Stan.

In an interview with Yahoo Entertainment, Abbasi described The apprentice – This shows how Trump rapes his first wife Ivana, swallows amphetamines to lose weight, and struggles against hair loss with liposuction and plastic surgery – as “raw but balanced”. (Ivana Trump accused her husband at the time in 1990 in an affidavit of the rape, then revoked the allegation in 1993 and said that she felt “hurt”, but did not want her words to be interpreted “in literally or criminal sense”.)

To mention that Trump and his surroundings see it unnecessarily The apprentice different. The early investor Dan Snyder, a billionaire who once belonged to the Washington Commanders of the NFL and donated more than a million dollars for Trump’s political efforts, was reportedly “angry” about a raw cut in February 2024; The lawyers of his production company soon began to fight against publication.

When the film was finally premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2024, Trump’s lawyers replied with an injunction in which they wanted to block “any marketing, distribution and publication”. Trump himself commented at Truth at Truth at Truth and called on it The apprentice “A cheap, defamatory and politically disgusting war hammer” by “Human Scum” with the aim of “violating him shortly before the presidential election 2024”.

Hollywood was also not particularly inviting. According to Abbasi, both Paul Thomas Anderson and Clint Eastwood directed the film from “business risks”, and almost every Hollywood studio rejected the rental.

“I was not naive when it came to being a split figure (Trump),” the director told Yahoo Entertainment, “but maybe I was a bit naive when it comes to the question of how the rest of the world would accept that And how the corporate structure in Hollywood would want. ”Take the opportunity.”

Since the budget for marketing and sales is limited, The apprentice Started on October 11th and only started $ 17.3 million at the box office. In the following month, Stan announced at a question and answer round that Variety had invited him to participate in the “Actors on Actors” series-but that none of his colleagues would agree to an interview.

“Actors, directors, producers, authors who saw the film rave about it,” said Stan in four eyes, “but I couldn’t find any other actor who could do it with me because they were too afraid to get there go and talk about this film. “”

“We couldn’t get past the publicist and their representatives,” he added.

(In a statement to USA Today, Ramin Setoodeh, co -editor of Variety, confirmed that “other actors did not want to work with (Stan) because they didn’t want to talk about Donald Trump.”

In a way, the Oscar nomination on Thursday is a justification for Stan: A late public admission of what industry representatives have told him privately all the time. Now the academy voters have the opportunity to send Trump a message on March 2. It will be fascinating to see if you accept them.

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